Isaac Asimov Quotes

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.

Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.

The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!

Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?